The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.
Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.